

An inside look at CJNG’s hitman training program revealed a strict environment with high stakes. They have a special operations group and other groups for specific types of warfare. CJNG is heavily militarized and violent compared to other criminal organizations. Īs of 2020, the CJNG is generally considered by the Mexican government to be the most dangerous criminal organization in Mexico and the second most powerful drug cartel in the country after Cártel de Sinaloa. prosecutors have said operatives of the cartel tried to buy belt-fed M-60 machine guns in the United States, and once brought down a Mexican military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade. The cartel has also been noted for cannibalizing some of its victims, sometimes during the training of new sicarios or cartel members as well as using drones to attack their enemies. Although the CJNG is particularly known for diversifying into various types of criminal rackets, drug trafficking (primarily cocaine and methamphetamine) as well as stealing crude oil remain among their most profitable criminal activities. The cartel has been characterized by its aggressive use of extreme violence and its public relations campaigns. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel ( Spanish: Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, formerly known as Los Mata Zetas, is a semi-militarized Mexican criminal group based in Jalisco which is headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"), one of the world's most-wanted drug lords. Los Cabos (armed wing in Baja California) Ĭaza Templa-Viagras (armed wing in Michoacán) Jalisco, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, Colima, Guanajuato, Veracruz, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Islas Marías, Sinaloa, Michoacán, Guerrero, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Tabasco, Querétaro, Tamaulipas, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Edomex, Morelos, Puebla Ĭalifornia, New York, Illinois, Texas, Georgia, ArkansasĬolombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, and GuyanaĦ,000–20,000 (suspected) ĭrug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, people smuggling, murder, kidnapping, torture, racketeering, extortion, petroleum theft, assault, prostitution, money laundering Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, Emilio Alejandro Pulido Salazar, Martin Arzola Ortega, and Erick Valencia Salazar Logo of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
